Improvement in carpet-beater and cleaner



` Cleaner; and I do -l1ereby declare that the following rollers, and bebeaten and brushed, all as hereinafter 5 yielding bed, brushing andcarrying-rollers, and

parts.'

' Below the ledges of the bed, ou each side,`I place am elle.

ALEXANDER STEVENS-0N, orA NEW Youn, N. Y.

Leners Patent No; 97,824, dated December 14, 1869.'

IMPROVEMENT In CARPET-MATER am: GLEANER The Schedule referred tc inthese Letters'Patent and making parl'. of tl1e same.

rLo all whom 'it may conce/ruf:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER STEvENsoN,oi' New York, in the county ofNew York, and State of 'New York, h ave iuven ted a new and improvedCarpetisa full,` clear, and exact `description thereof', which willenable others Vskilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to new. and useful improvements incarpet-cleaning devices, having for its object to provide a simple andeicient apparatus, consisting of a yielding bed, 'brushing-rollers,moving-rollers, and a beating-apparatus, whereby the carpet, being woundupon aroller or rollers, maybe moved along, from time to time, over thesaid yielding bed and brushingmore fully' speciiie'd.

Figure l represents a sectional elevation of the said Figure 2represents a plan view of the beating-in-` strument. i

Sirnilarlletters` of reference indicate corresponding On any suitableframe, A, Iy arrange a yielding bed, B, consisting o'f cords or straps,stretched over coiled furniture-springs, O, from side to side vof theframe.

The cords are, preferably, made of hair, as more durable, and betteradapted for drawing the carpet over them. f f i brushing-rollers D, andbelow these, winding-rollers E, all having hand-cranks.

'lhe carpet to be cleaned is first rolled upon one of thewinding-rollers E,`except a small portion at one end. l

This is laid across the bed B, and beaten with a beating-instrument, F,represented in iig. 2. Y

The said part, after being suiiciently beaten, is then passed alongtothe opposite roller E, and engaged thereon, and winding off the other.The .carpet is, from time to time, wholly passed over the lsaid bed, tobe beaten. Y

The beating-instrument consists of. a pair of handles, G, to which areconnected tw`o bent metal straps, H, for the support of a series ofparallel wires, I, arranged at equal distances apart, and connected atthe.y

outer ends to a tie-bar, K. This instrument acts upon alarge area ofsurface at one' blow, and is very effeef' tive and, together with theyielding' bed B', furnishes an exceedingly etlicient .carpet-cleaningapparatus.

`If desired, aprons of woven fabric may be suspended over thewinding-rollers, to prevent the dirt, passing away 'from the part 'beingbeaten and the brushingrollers, from again settling on the cleaned'part.-

Having thus described my invention, I` claim as new, and desire tosecure by Patent- 1. The combination of a yielding bed, B,brushingrollers D ed. l

2. The arrangement ofthe yielding beating-bed, with the device forrolling D D and E E, as shown and described, in combiiiation with the'beater K F I I H G G, for the purpose specified.

The above specification of, my'invention signed byV me, this 21st day ofApril, 1869.-

ALEX. STEVENSON.

, and winding-rollers E, substantially as speci- Witnesses I FRANKBLOGELEY, l ALEX. F; ROBERTS.

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